U.S.  DEPOSITORY 

S.  R.  A.— B.  S.  12.  __ , — — — Issued  October  2,.  1 9  1 1 

U,  S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE. 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 

Henry  W.  Henshaw,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


REGULATION  FOR  THE  PROTECTION  OF  MOOSE  AND  MOUNTAIN  SHEEP 
ON  THE  KENAI  PENINSULA  AND  ADJOINING  REGION  IN  ALASKA. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  by 
section  2  of  the  act  of  May  11,  1908  (35  Stat,  L02),  entitled  "An  act  to  amend 

an  act  entitled  'An  act  for  the  protection  of  game  in  Alaska,  and  for  other 
purposes,'  approved  June  7,  1902."  paragraph  3  of  Regulation  8  of  the  regula- 
tions for  the  protection  of  deer,  moose,  caribou,  mountain  sheep,  and  mountain 
goats  in  Alaska,  effective  August  1.  JDK;,  is  hereby  amended,  effective  October 
1,  1916,  to  read  as  follows  : 

The  sale  of  carcasses  or  parts  thereof  of  moose  and  sheep  in  the  r< 
south  of  latitude  G2°  north  and  between  longitude  141°  west  and  the  western 
outlet  of  Lake  ('lark  in  longitude  155°  west;  or  the  shipment  of  carcasses  or 
parts  thereof  of  said  animals  for  sale  from  Anchorage,  Seward,  or  other 
points  on  the  Kenai  Peninsula,  is  hereby  prohibited  until  October  1,  1918,  and 
no  carcasses  or  parts  thereof  of  said  animals  shall  be  accepted  for  shipment 
to  other  points  in  Alaska  unless  accompanied  by  affidavit  of  the  owner  that 
they  were  not  purchased  and  are  not  intended  for  sale. 

In  testimony  whereof.  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  seal  of 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be  affixed  this  twentieth  day  of  Septem- 
ber, 1916. 

[seal.]  D.   F.   Houston, 

Si  en  tary  of  Agriculture. 

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